Uday Prakash
| Uday Prakash | |
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| Born |
January 1, 1952 Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Education | M.A., B.Sc |
| Genre | Novels, Poetry, Articles |
Uday Prakash (born January 1, 1952) is a Hindi poet, scholar,journalist, translator and short story writer from India. He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a free-lance writer. He has also received several awards for his collection of short stories, Mohan Das.
Prakash was born on 1 January 1952, in the backward village of Sitapur, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India. He was raised by and given primary education there by a teacher. He graduated in Science and obtained his Master’s degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974. From 1975-76 he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU); He was imprisoned as a passionate communist party member. He later lost interest in political ideology.
In 1978 Prakash taught as an Assistant Professor at JNU, and its Imphal Center for Post Graduate Studies. In 1980 he left academia, to become Officer-on-Special-Duty with the Madhya Pradesh Department of Culture. At the same time, he was Controlling Officer of the Bhopal Rabindra Bhawan, and assistant editor of Poorvagraha, a journal of Hindi literary criticism. (He was later critical of the Hindi literary establishment including Ashok Vajpeyi, who he worked for at Poorvagraha.)
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